While most students are parting ways for the Christmas holidays by sharing festive gifts, one girl offered her classmate, 22-year-old Jake Moreno, something more personal.

A packet of chewing gum.

Now, this wasn’t just any packet of gum. This was a long-awaited, inside joke – as the girl, Alissa, had spent an entire semester sharing her gum with Jake.

And considering how stingy most people are with their gum – despite packets being super cheap – we’ve got to give credit to Alissa for being such a generous person, especially given she’s probably on a student budget.

Having asked for one last piece of gum on the final day of school, Jake was handed an entire packet of Extra chewing gum.

On the front of the packet, Alissa had written ‘Sorry I’m’, next to ‘Extra’ logo – and inside was her number written out on each individual packet of gum.

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In a tweet that has since gone viral with more than 52,000 retweets and 213,000 likes, Jake wrote: ‘I’ve asked this girl in my math class for a piece of gum every day for the whole semester.

‘Today was our last day and I asked her for gum and she gave me the whole pack as a parting gift… if this ain’t the smoothest thing I’ve ever seen. 💯🔥 #giveextragetextra’

i've asked this girl in my math class for a piece of gum every day for the whole semester. today was our last day and i asked her for gum and she gave me the whole pack as a parting gift… if this ain't the smoothest thing i've ever seen. 💯🔥 #giveextragetextrapic.twitter.com/ELd9CukEUW

Jake was quick to clear this up though, saying: ‘I was oblivious to the signs and didn’t think she was into me. I guess if someone willingly gives you like 1,000 pieces of gum that means they’re at least kind of into you.’

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Jake tells Metro.co.uk that he and Alissa are actually pretty good friends – though he’d never asked her out as he was intimidated by the fact she’s taller than him.

However, Alissa was keen to give Jake the gum nonetheless.

Jake told us: ‘She gave me the pack of gum and she actually told me to open it right then and there because she was so excited about how clever she was.